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What have I here? Heb. What to me here? the sense is either,
1. What do I here? Why do I sit still here, and not go to Babylon to punish the Babylonians, and to deliver my people? Or,
2. What honour have I by suffering this injury to be done to my people?
Is taken away, were carried away captive by the Babylonians,
for nought; without any provocation or pretence of right. See before on Isa_52:3. They that rule over then, who by their office are obliged to deal justly and tenderly with their subjects,
make them to howl, by their tyrannical and unmerciful usage of them.
My name continually every day is blasphemed; instead of that praise and service which the Babylonians owe me for all their successes and conquests, they blaspheme me, as if I wanted either power or good-will to save my people out of their hands.